Month: May 2014

Play is curious Play allows us to explore engagement Play teaches us lessons we can’t explain Pure play allows us to be in the moment Play can be an input of pain, beauty or revelation Play reminds us to be human beings Play is unstable Play is a kingdom Play is a situation Play is a…

I was invited to give a workshop on Play at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Khio) in the Autumn of 2013. In this workshop, I started by giving a brief talk on play and how it can be an important part of the design process. Afterwards, I facilitated materials (cardboard props) in which teams of students…

In the Autumn of 2013 I gave a Holistic Mapping workshop at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) in Oslo. The students at NMH have a creative laboratory seminar every week, in which invited artists, designers, and creatives come to explore creativity and find new ways of looking into their practice. This time, I facilitated…

Play does not look for consistency but for creativity/possibility Play is obsessive and all ecompassing Play is opportunistic Play is divergent Play works in contradiction to active time (consumer time) Play is a signaling tool Play suggests what if Play suggests as if Play is substitutive Play is not contingent upon time allocation Play is…

Play can change behavior for the better. It can bring the extraordinary out of the everyday and we can gain new perspectives from the world around us. Play can help us think in a different way, and as designers, come to better creative solutions. Maziar Raein and I gave a workshop on Play at the Norwegian…

I ran a workshop centered on design process as part of my Master’s. I got my class to help me out and together, we designed a situation, product or service. In order to do so, in teams, we would pick one word from three categories in the board, blindfolded. Then, we sketched and brainstormed ideas according to…

Photo: Resonate’s Flickr account During Resonate 2013 I was lucky to participate in the computer vision workshop (that’s me in the white t-shirt and glasses, smiling). It was run by Kyle McDonald and Golan Levin. Although we got stuff we could test and tinker with, like FaceTracker, for instance, it was more of a Master Class…

I attended Resonate Festival in 2013, and I felt like I found my tribe. Held in Belgrade, Serbia, Resonate had talks, panel discussions, screenings and workshops, all circling around technology as enabler of creative ideas: a place where art, design and technology come together. I was lucky enough to be in the computer vision workshop held…

During my Master’s I had the luck to have a one-year mentorship/tutoring program with Pete and Joel from Hellicar&Lewis. Their work really push the boundaries of technology in a creative way, focusing on being in the moment and creating memories you will cherish and remember. I’ve also participated in paper prototyping workshops held by Pete…